What are my options for recording audio?

[Mad Professor]

Good Day All.

As far as I am aware the current release of ZoneMinder still does not support any kind of audio recording.

My new IP CCTV's cameras have built in microphones. and as such I can log into the camera via a web browser and view the live video stream as well as hear what is going on.

But due to door-to-door sales persons trying to sell goods and or services on the door step, and some refusing to take no for an answer I am looking for a way to record both the video and audio so that I can produce the evidence to the police.

So I would guess that this question is not directly related to ZoneMinder, But what are options for recording audio?

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

[knight-of-ni]

This isn't possible currently because zoneminder records jpeg's to disk, which obvisouly does not support embedded audio.

We have to get zoneminder recording to a video container first. Once we overcome that hurdle then audio recording should be an easy add on.

We have a working proof-of-concept that records to an mp4 container:
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/issues/452

The backend works flawlessly, but the frontend has some issues that need to be worked out. We need a volunteer willing to spend the time to hash these out before we can move this feature into production.

Alternatively, you could try a different recording product. Blue Iris seems to be popular and affordable (never used it), but it runs on windows. Perhaps that records audio.

Exacqvision is product I am familiar with. It will run on windows, mac, or linux, and the software comes with 1 camera license for free. Since this software is intended for commerical applications, be prepared to spend some $ for camera licenses.
https://exacq.com/support/downloads.php

Milestone is another commerical product that runs on Windows only, but it happens to have a free home-version, limited to 8 cameras & 5 days of storage.
http://www.milestonesys.com/xprotect-fr ... -download/

Like Exacqvision, be prepared to pay $ if your needs grow beyond the free version.

[Mad Professor]

knnniggett: Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post / question.

I understand fully that currently ZoneMinder it's self is not able to record audio.

I like ZoneMinder, and want to stick with ZoneMinder, and changing from linux to windows is just not going to happen.

I am now trying to think outside of the box a little here. I have no idea if this is possible.
Is there any way that ZoneMinder can trigger (start) an external application / process on an event?

Helpfully you might be able to see where I am heading with this.

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

[knight-of-ni]

Sure, just create a filter based on your criteria.
Populate the "Execute command" field with the full path to a script you have written to do what you want to do.
Keep in mind the script and its contents will be run under the web user account so you'll have to verify permissions.

[carcachute]

Is the video storage project (https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/issues/39) stalled?

I'd love this feature and would gladly post a bounty if it works as a "direct to disk" record with minimal overhead (and audio capability). But things seem awfully quiet lately.